Ours, hkewise, did not fail in repartee ; telling them they should witness the effects of arms tliey had never seen before ; and a multitude of other speeches, as is usual at a seige of a town. After the one and the other had sung, danced and parliamented enough, day broke. My companions and I were always concealed, for fear the enemy should see us preparing our arms the best we could, being however separated, each in one of the canoes belonging to the savage Montagnars\ After being equipped with liglit armour we took each an arquebus and went ashore. I saw the enemy leave their barricade; they were about 200 men, of strong and robust appearance, who were coming slowly towards us, with a gravity and assurance which greatly pleased me, led on by tlii*ee Chiefs. Our's were marching in similar order, and told me that tliose who bore three lofty plumes were the Chiefs, and that there were but these three and they were to be recognized by those plumes, which were considerably larger than those of tlieir companions, and that I must do all I could to kill them. I promised to do what I could, and that I was very sorry they could not clearly understand me, so as to give them the order and plan of attacking their enemies, as we should indubitably defeat them all ;

1 At the first settlement of Canada, aU the St Lawrence Indians living below and some distance above Quebec were designated by the name of Montagnars or MontagnrS. This appellation was derived from a range of hills or mountains which, extending Northwesterly from Cape Tourmente (five miles below Quebec) divides the rivers that fall above that Cape into the St Lawrence, the Otto vva, and Lake Superior, from those, first of the Baguenay, and afterwards of